Bootable flash drive

[Eric Shubert]

Nathan England wrote:
> I am trying to make a bootable USB flash drive. This is just a regular 2 GB 
> PNY flash device from walmart for 12 bucks. Nothing special. I have read a 
> dozen sites how to make this work, and they all focus on formatting the device 
> with fat16. However, I have a PC-BSD image that I dd'd onto it and it boots 
> and works just dandy, however it does not have a fat16 partition on it.
> 
> How do I create a bootable flash drive with an ext partition?
> 
> This really cannot be this complicated, can it? My laptop will boot off a USB 
> device. I tried just creating a partition and formatting it ext2, making it 
> bootable with fdisk and putting what I wanted on it, however I just get 
> errors... and not the kind like my boot scripts are not working.

What are the errors?

> I have so 
> far used GRUB... maybe that is my problem, but everything else uses syslinux, 
> which again, wants fat16...
> 
> I appreciate any help or pointers,
> 
> Nathan

Did you install grub on the mbr of the USB drive?

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-Eric 'shubes'